Roger, What Clojure version are you using? When I run your snippet with HEAD, I get:
FAIL in clojure.lang.persistentlist$emptyl...@1 (blah2.clj:11) test alias function expected: (= 1 (do (alias (quote c) (quote coretest)))) actual: (not (= 1 nil)) Which is presumably what you want to see. On Jan 3, 9:28 am, Roger Gilliar <ro...@gilliar.de> wrote: > > As I understand it, the Clojure reader expects to be able to resolve > > namespace references as soon as it sees them. Since "alias" is a > > function, the "c" alias doesn't exist until sometime after the reader > > has already run. I think you will encounter a similar problem with > > the import macro. > > Ok, > > that makes sense somehow. Thanks for the explanation. > > Regards > Roger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en